Improvement in bag-holders



E. woons. BAG-HOLDER.

Patented June .5, 1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ENOOH WOODS, OF ENGLEWOOD, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAG-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191,741, dated June 5,1877; application led March Q4, 1877'.

To all whom it 'may concern.-

Be it known that I, ENOGH WOODS, of Englewood, in the county of Cook andState of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement inBag-Holders, of which the following is a speciiication:

The present invention relates to an improvement in devices for holdingand filling bags, and it is especially designed for filling bags fromcars, wagons, and in fields from thrashers, and in feed-houses. Itconsists of a suitable hopper, which is funnel-shaped, and terminates atits lower end in a cylindridal hoop, to which is affixed a bag-holderconsisting of hoop-iron, with protuberances formed on its periphery ofthat part which is secured to the bottom of the hopper. The ends ot'this hoop or band iron project out some little distance from'thecylindrical hoop which supports it, and the upper edges of these ends soprojecting out are cut away on their upper edges somewhat in the form ofan ogee,7 and are corrugated to hold the bag or sack in place after ithas been placed on the holder, above the projections thereon. rlhehopper is readily attachable and detachable from headed bolts or screws,as the whole is to be hereinafter fully described and shown.

llnthe drawings', Figure 1 is an elevation of my improvement inbag-holders, represented as hung to a vertical support, a bag being inpositionv as when being lilled. Fig. 2 is an elevation with a portion ofthe hopper broken away to show the inside thereof. Fig. 3 is an invertedbottom view of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the hopper-fastener detached from the hopper.

A represents a hopper, which is made of galvanized iron, and of suchsize at the bottom as will be smalle-r than the mouth of a bag or sack.To this hopper is fastened, by ordinary means, a cylindrical hoop, B, ofthe width of about one inch. The holder C consists o'f a strip of bandor hoop iron, which has formed on its periphery p rotuberances orprojections D, of such height as to form a suitable support fora bag orsack when adjusted as hereinafter described, and as shown at Fig. 1. Theends of this holder C project out from the part B, as shown, and theirtop parts are cut away, somewhat in ogee form,

and are provided with blunt serrations or corrugations, so as not totear a bag or sack The projections D are formed by striking up theband-iron by a swage or dies, and they should also have blunt apexes, soas notto injure a bag.

The fastening of the bag is as follows: The hopper being in position asshown in Fig. l, the mouth or hem is placed above the projections D, andthen drawn to the front and down over the projecting ends S. In thisposition it will hang when being lled without becoming detached; infact, no ordinary force will detach the sack or bag until that part ofthe mouth brought over the projection S is removed, when the bag willloosen its hold so as to be removed without unhitching anything. This isa great advantage in handling and lilling bags, as no time but theinstant is required to handle or detach the bag, and under nocircumstances is there any lifting of a bag required, no matter howshort it may be.

The fastener G, as shown at Figs. 2 and 4, is provided with a slot ateach end for attaching the hol-per to a wagon-box, a car, side of abuilding, or to a stake in the ground, as

when the device is used in sacking grain in a field.

It' headed nails or screws be used to hold the fastener G, the latter,as the slots m m are open at their outer ends, may be first locked underthe upper screw and then raised far enough to slide back on the lowerscrew without loosing its hold on the upper screw.

Screws may be placed in a support at such heights as accommodate thedevice to different lengths of bags.

I claim- A bag-holder which consists ot' a strip of thinA sheet metal,O, provided on its periphery with a series of projections, D, andreduced serrated ends S S, combined with the lower end of 4hopper A, sothat the serrated ends project outward to admit a bag or sack to beplaced above projections D and fastened to the serrated ends S S, as andfor the purpose set forth.

ENOGH WOODS.

Witnesses:

G. L. GHoPiN, O. EI. ADIX.

